As of yesterday, the city-owned facility at 2800 SW Thistle that was Southwest Community Center is officially Southwest Teen Life Center and the future Southwest Neighborhood Service Center.

Four months after the planned change was announced by city leaders during a West Seattle media briefing, the new budget mandating the changeover is officially in effect, so we asked the city about the transition process.

We’ve subsequently learned the dates and plans for closing the Delridge Neighborhood Service Center and opening its replacement at Southwest, and also some things you need to know about what’s NOT changing at the Southwest building:

The NSC’s citywide are now under the wing of the city’s Finance and Administrative Services Department, whose spokesperson Katherine Schubert-Knapp tells WSB: “The Delridge lease expires at the end of March, so at this point, our goal is to close that site March 30 and open in Southwest on April 2. We don’t have any formal diagrams to share but the concept is to replicate the exact footprint we have in Delridge at Southwest. Parks needs to take a look at mechanical systems (HVAC, fire suppression, etc.) to see if this is doable.”

Parks, meantime, wants you to know that while “the facility is no longer operational as a community center,” as spokesperson Joelle Hammerstad puts it, the pool and Teen Life Center are “fully operational” (pool hours are here; Teen Life Center hours are here).

Building closure: “The entire facility, including the pool, will be closed from March 26 – April 1 while the gym floors are refinished,” Hammerstad explains.

After that, as mentioned above, the new Neighborhood Service Center location is expected to open. But also:

The pool closure continues beyond April 1st: Immediately after the refinishing-related closure, the pool stays closed until April 16th for draining and preventive maintenance, but the rest of the facility will be open. (Hammerstad says the pool/gym work have to be done separately “because the fumes from the floor resurfacing will restrict anyone – other than staff working on the project – from being in the building.”)

We’ll continue following up on the transition.

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As a side note, the community computer access lab is also still open in the Southwest Community Center building as well. It is open Monday through Friday from 2:30 to 8pm. Internet and computer access open to the community with technical support (and some classes as well)